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Luke Palmer <fibon...@babylonia.flatirons.org> writes:
> Also, the "standard library", however large or small that will be, will
> definitely be mutable at runtime.  There'll be none of that Java "you
> can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't" crap.

Great. But will it also be possible to add methods (or modify them)
to an existing class at runtime? You only have to look at a Smalltalk
image to see packages adding helper methods to Object and the like
(better to add a do nothing method to Object that find yourself doing
C<$thing.do_that if $thing.can('do_that')> all the time...)